Orange Blossom Enfleurage · 2026

Handmade botanical soliflore · Flowers from my own orange trees

Orange blossom, in the flesh.

This is not an orange blossom accord, nor an interpretation of the flower assembled from its familiar aromatic components. It is the flower itself, patiently impressed into fat through the traditional process of enfleurage.

Made by hand from blossoms gathered from my own orange trees, this 2026 enfleurage preserves an exceptionally intimate expression of orange blossom: honeyed, indolic, green, waxen, and unexpectedly animalic.

The first impression is golden and floral, but beneath the familiar sweetness is a much stranger material. There is a thick, almost edible honeyed warmth, the fleshy density of white petals, and a deep, musky undertow. A flicker of green neroli rises through the heavier indoles. The effect is both clean and unclean, innocent and carnal, luminous and bodily.

Orange blossom has always fascinated me for this contradiction. It can smell virginal and voluptuous in the same breath. Freshly laundered and faintly feral. A bridal flower with an animal hiding behind it.

Enfleurage allows these different aspects to coexist in a way that feels remarkably close to the living flower. Rather than emphasizing only the bright, volatile beauty associated with neroli, the fatty medium also gives the flower's heavier, softer, more tenacious facets room to unfold.

Each blossom is a small contribution to the finished perfume. The labor is cumulative, intimate, and governed by flowering rather than by a manufacturing schedule.

The resulting solid perfume is warm and delicate on the skin, yet unusually rich in its aromatic detail. Honey, white petals, green floral breath, soft musk, and the nearly tactile impression of the flower's own flesh.

A botanical soliflore for those who love orange blossom beyond its prettiness.

Aromatic character: Living orange blossom, indolic white petals, rich honey, green neroli, floral wax, animalic musk, soft floral warmth.

Method: Traditional handmade enfleurage using flowers from my own orange trees.

Format: Botanical solid perfume.

2026 edition. Limited quantity.

Organic Orange Blossom Enfleurage . 
An organic, handmade, botanical soliflore (single note). This solid perfume has been produced by hand using the slow artisanal process of cold enfleurage from my personal orange tree. Please note, this is indeed a truly organic and pure floral fragrance-- a rarity. Honeyed, animalic, and exotic, the scent is rich in indoles, possessing notes of tea and musk. It is warm, delicate, and sensuous, with green apparitions of neroli flickering over the heavier indoles. I have a limited quantity.

Literally, "in flower," enfleurage is a very traditional and pure method of extracting fragrance, utilizing only fat and plant material. To learn more about the enfleurage process generally and at Wild Veil, please continue reading the section below. Here, I have used enfleurage to capture the the periodic blooming of orange blossoms. This "pommade" (highly scented solid perfume-- not to be confused with pomade for hair!) consists of hundreds of individual organic orange blossoms that I gathered from my perfume gardens, laid onto an emulsion of organic avocado butter and raw beeswax. I repeated this process to reach a high degree of fragrance saturation. Each repetition is a "charge," and this enfleurage was charged the traditional 36 times. The aroma possesses the unmistakable signature of a white flower extraction: intensely indolic, sweet, and musky. It is very much the opposite of the shrill, overpowering version of a synthetic floral you find at the fragrance counter. Only you and those closest to you will be able to smell it. Apply to pulse points.

This is available in 1ml (a sample of approximately 20-25 drops), 5ml and 10ml. 1ml (sample size) comes in a hinge top pod. 5ml comes in a glass jar. 10ml is available in a glass jar or a round tin.

Photos: fresh orange blossoms charging the enfleurage pommade; orange blossoms from my citrus plants; enfleurage in 5ml and 10ml black violet glass jars.

PLEASE READ:
**Although the floral perfume produced by enfleurage is osmically balanced (meaning it contains sufficiently complex interplay of top through base notes to be considered a perfume in itself), it is a subtle creation. It must be given time to breathe on the skin. When cold, it may not smell much at all. Allow it to breathe and warm on a pulse point before inhaling deeply. Most noses love the aroma of my enfleurage but, a small percent of my clients are anosmic to enfleurage and therefore cannot smell the floral fragrance. This has to do with natural differences in nasal receptors and is not due to an issue with the product. I always recommend ordering a sample before committing to a larger size for this reason.**

A B O U T • W I L D • V E I L • E N F L E U R A G E

Enfleurage is a beautiful process whereby odorless fats that are solid at room temperature are used to capture the fragrant compounds exuded by plants. Enfleurage is by far one of the oldest methods of fragrance extraction, and it is nearly extinct. Only a handful of artisans still practice it today as it is no longer used in the manufacture of perfumes on a mass scale. A voluptuous art, enfleurage is quite the labor of love, consuming time, labor, and expense. Historically enfleurage was done by women, or maidens, in the fields of Grasse, France. Although far rarer to find enfleurage products in the market today, is still "largely" practiced by women.

There are two types of enfleurage: "cold" and "hot." Wild Veil exclusively uses cold enfleurage:

In cold enfleurage, a large framed plate of glass, called a chassis, is smeared with a layer of fat, traditionally unscented animal fat rendered from lard or tallow, and allowed to set. Wild Veil does not use any animal fat whatsoever! My enfleurage products are organic and botanical; I purvey fats from a variety of nut and plant butters such as shea, jojoba, avocado, fair trade palm, and mango. Botanical matter, usually petals or whole flowers, is then placed on the fat and its scent is allowed to diffuse into the fat over the course of 1-3 days. The process is then repeated (up to 36 times depending on the fat and the botanical matter) by replacing the spent botanicals with fresh ones until the fat has reached a desired degree of fragrance saturation. The cold fat process was developed in southern France in the 18th century for the production of high-grade concentrates.

In hot enfleurage, solid fats are heated and botanical matter is stirred into the fat. Spent botanicals are repeatedly strained from the fat and replaced with fresh material until the fat is saturated with fragrance. This method is considered the oldest known procedure for preserving plant fragrance substances. So far Wild Veil only incorporates cold enfleurage into products.

In both instances, once the fat is saturated with fragrance, it is then called the "enfleurage pommade." This is a highly perfumed solid fat, not to be confused with pomade used for styling hair. Historically, this enfleurage pommade was either sold as it was,* or it could be further washed or soaked in ethyl alcohol to draw the fragrant molecules into the alcohol. When the alcohol was separated from the fat and allowed to evaporate, it would leave behind the absolute of the botanical matter. The spent fat would typically be used to make soaps since it is still fairly fragrant. *This listing is for an organic pommade.

The advent of modern perfumery ushered in the ease and relative inexpense of commercial solvent-based extraction of natural materials along with mass production of synthetic compounds, making the art of enfleurage seem highly inefficient and costly in comparison. The method is now superseded by more efficient techniques such as solvent extraction or supercritical fluid extraction using liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) or similar compressed gases. Enfleurage had been the sole method of extracting the fragrant compounds (containing thousands of aromachemicals) from delicate floral botanical such as jasmine and tuberose, which are be destroyed or denatured by the high temperatures required by cheaper methods of fragrance extraction such as steam distillation. It is still believed by some perfumers that enfleurage remains the only way to capture and preserve the full range of complexity of certain scents, particularly of flowers.

All aesthetic material copyright Abby Hinsman 2026.